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Fighting against racism and fascism
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Christ in the crossfire: Tommy Robinson and the battle for Christmas
In the fading light of a December afternoon in 2025, central London prepares for two very different visions of Christmas. On one side, far-right activist Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) was finalising plans for a “United for Christ this Christmas” open-air…
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Kent’s latest ‘Fash Harry’ demo outnumbered by anti-fascist bake sale
Another embarrassing flop for Kent’s “Fash Harry” Hilden. His march on the Napier Barracks asylum centre in Folkestone on Saturday was…
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Xmas woes as fascist YouTubers feel the pinch
Families nationwide are struggling to budget for Christmas, but spare a thought for some of Britain’s racist and fascist grifters…
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Fascist no-show at Immigration HQ
So the Horley Patriots, calling a rally in Croydon today, announced the venue as Lunar House, the old Home Office…
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Anger over possible release of German nazi terrorist
This week, the German courts were again having to confront the case of the terrorist National Socialist Underground, which went…
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GB News pays substantial damages for ‘categorically false’ allegations
GB News has been forced to apologise and pay substantial damages to a Muslim charity, after broadcasting false terrorism allegations.…
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The bells ring out as Reform’s Xmas party is cancelled
’Tis the season to be jolly – unless you’re Reform UK’s Deputy leader Richard Tice, who recently discovered that Croydon’s…
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Kent’s ‘fash Harry’ goes into overdrive as support falters
Kent-based far-right agitator Harry Hilden has embarked on a frenetic schedule of protests, self-promotion and online broadcasting in the wake…
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Veteran Euro-nazi makes comeback at terrorist-run conference
On the same weekend that Nick Griffin was trying to return to the limelight in Madrid, an even older nazi, who’s just as disliked by the rest of the jackboot tendency, made his own comeback at a conference run by…
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Sick nazi posts lead to jail sentence
David Morgan of Aberdare, south Wales, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to publishing nine…
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Jonathan Gullis and the art of the idiot provocateur
So, the loud mouthed blow-torch of Britain’s culture wars, former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis, is back, announcing that he has…
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Croatian anti-fascists push back against resurgent far right
On Sunday, tens of thousands of Croatians poured into the streets in cities from Zagreb to Rijeka, Pula, Zadar and…
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Gone-to-seed Griffin is past his sell-by date
Nick Griffin’s big comeback in Madrid on 23 November only proved that he is yesterday’s man. Perhaps that’s putting it…
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‘Men of England’ Danny Tommo and Ryan Bridge do a terrified runner in France
A couple of days ago it was all hard talk about how their Operation Overlord II was going to wage…
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Key organiser of Kent far-right protests arrested
Harry Hilden, a prominent far-right activist in Kent and one of the principal organisers of recent anti-migrant demonstrations, has been…
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Hate music peddler jailed for three years
A Hungarian living in Hereford has been jailed for more than three years for distributing and possessing extreme right-wing music…
International news
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Anger over possible release of German nazi terrorist
This week, the German courts were again having to confront the case of the terrorist National Socialist Underground, which went…
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Veteran Euro-nazi makes comeback at terrorist-run conference
On the same weekend that Nick Griffin was trying to return to the limelight in Madrid, an even older nazi,…
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Croatian anti-fascists push back against resurgent far right
On Sunday, tens of thousands of Croatians poured into the streets in cities from Zagreb to Rijeka, Pula, Zadar and…
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Gone-to-seed Griffin is past his sell-by date
Nick Griffin’s big comeback in Madrid on 23 November only proved that he is yesterday’s man. Perhaps that’s putting it…
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Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking Russian bribes
A former Brexit Party MEP, whose name features in messages between the convicted former Welsh Reform Party leader Nathan Gill and his Russian handler, has denied taking bribes David Coburn, the former UKIP Party leader in Scotland and later a…
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Golding selfie gets rockabilly singer banned from Cavern Club
Liverpool’s iconic Cavern Club has cancelled a performance this weekend by rockabilly singer and pianist Dylan Kirk and his band…
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What are Danny Tommo and his mates planning in France next weekend?
British vigilantes travelled to northern France last week and posted footage of themselves digging up, slashing and disabling a small…
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Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner boosts far-right anti-migrant campaign
The announcement that 540 asylum seekers would be housed for twelve months at the disused Crowborough Army Training Camp in…
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Day of reckoning for Reform UK’s Russian agent
Disgraced former Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill was today sentenced at the Old Bailey to ten and a half…
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Missus Kent’s chat group talks weapons and killing
MissusKent alias Jodie Scott / Goodban – the Poundshop Lily Allen of Whitstable – has been seriously embarrassed by the…
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The blood and folly of Alek Yerbury
In a bland hotel room in Birmingham, brightened only by the flags of his National Rebirth Party, leader Alek Yerbury…
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Advance UK’s big day out at the races…
Only last month Ben Habib’s Advance UK had plans for a launch event in Wales rather spoiled when the venue…
Research and analysis
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Respectability, ideology and networks – why Farage’s new adviser matters
Dr James Orr, a theologian and philosopher of religion at the University of Cambridge was last month appointed senior adviser…
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Farage, Reform and the ‘Russia question’ that won’t go away
In the wake of Nathan Gill’s guilty verdict on multiple counts of bribery for taking payments in exchange for pro-Kremlin…
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The Resistible Rise of Reform UK
The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah…
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Traditional Britain Group – secrecy, elitism, and the far right’s academic mask
On Saturday May 10, 2025, the Traditional Britain Group will host a luncheon in London to replace its annual black-tie…
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Far-right ‘strategist’ calls for murder of migrants at sea
One of Britain’s most prominent far-right ‘thinkers’, connected with the Homeland Party, is openly advocating the murder of migrants at sea. Pete North, who writes under the pseudonym Northern Variant, has used his latest newsletter to supporters to argue that…
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A knockout of facts over prejudice
For months, Paul Golding, the leader of the far-right group Britain First, has orchestrated a campaign for a mixed martial…
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Flaggers’ mask slips as fascists and nazis take centre stage
“Don’t you dare call us fascists. We’re just ordinary folk worried about our women and kids.” It’s the familiar refrain…
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US bans Patriotic Alternative boss Mark Collett
As reported recently by Searchlight, America’s best known racist Jared Taylor now seems free to travel around Europe spreading his…
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Christian nationalism: a far-right religious ideology drifting across the Atlantic
Christian nationalism is not just a theological position. It is a political weapon – a reactionary ideology that fuses religious…
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Manchester far right’s symphony of hypocrisy
Tucked away today in a corner of St. Peter’s Square, Manchester, a small and unrepresentative gathering of fascists, racists, and…
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National Rebirth Party rolls out latest retro-nazi fashion statement…
Shoppers in Havant were treated to an unexpected catwalk show last week, as the National Rebirth Party rolled out yet…
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PA nazis panic over Searchlight report about their jailed comrade
Patriotic Alternative comrades of jailed race hate nazi James Costello are in a panic over our recent article which may…
Culture
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Golding selfie gets rockabilly singer banned from Cavern Club
Liverpool’s iconic Cavern Club has cancelled a performance this weekend by rockabilly singer and pianist Dylan Kirk and his band…
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Artur Gold: the violinist of Treblinka
In the summer of 2013 I interviewed Samuel Willenberg, at the time the last surviving participant of the Jewish revolt…
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Review: Celebrating Billie Holiday, jazz great and civil rights activist
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow…
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‘Lili Marlene’: the song that haunted the Nazis
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful…
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Once-banned US racist now travels freely in Europe
One of America’s most notorious racists, Jared Taylor, is being allowed to travel freely around Europe and the UK, even though he was banned from the entire Schengen area a few years ago. Taylor turns up on both the relatively…
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How Reform’s ‘shop window’ council brought chaos to Kent
When Reform UK swept to power at Kent County Council last May, the victory was heralded as a populist revolution.…
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Has neo-nazi posted racist propaganda from jail?
The convicted nazi James Costello is due to be released on license from prison this month. And already his comrades…
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Nick Griffin to be star speaker at fascist pro-Putin fest
Some of Europe’s most extreme fascists – including the UK’s Nick Griffin – are heading to Madrid later this month…
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From Searchlight 25 years ago – The company they keep
At the Conservative Party conference in 2000, attendees were greeted by the sight of a Tory shadow minister sharing a…
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Desecration – how my dad’s war is being stolen by the far right
My father was a World War II veteran. Decorated. Medalled. He fought across continents against a monstrous ideology that threatened…
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Respectability, ideology and networks – why Farage’s new adviser matters
Dr James Orr, a theologian and philosopher of religion at the University of Cambridge was last month appointed senior adviser…
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Kent ‘Pink Ladies’ left red-faced at shrinking numbers
In September, local activists had only a few days to organise a counter demonstration to an event planned by racists…
Anti-fascism
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Desecration – how my dad’s war is being stolen by the far right
My father was a World War II veteran. Decorated. Medalled. He fought across continents against a monstrous ideology that threatened…
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Obituary: Sir Geoffrey Bindman (1933-2025), an extraordinary lawyer and a friend of Searchlight
Everyone at Searchlight was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sir Geoffrey Bindman, who passed away on 4…
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Mike Cohen: The anti-fascist whose camera was his gun
Mike Cohen was one of Britain’s great Jewish anti-fascists, whose significant contribution to the movement came through his camera lens.…
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Epping sets anti-racists a challenge we cannot shirk
In Epping, organised fascists and their racist supporters have scored a notable victory over the last couple of weeks. The…
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How the Steel City humiliated the UKIP clown show
In the hours before the UKIP rally in Sheffield, a young man of far-right persuasions named Thomas Moffitt, known online as “Young Bob,” voiced his anxieties to a smartphone camera. Arrested recently in Birmingham and now a fixture of this…
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The Canadian far-right agitator targeting Ireland
That extremists on the other side of the Atlantic have always had an eye on Ireland is nothing remotely new…
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Britain First declares ‘massive victory’ after buying back their ‘battle bus’ at auction
Britain First have got their ‘battle bus’ back and are hailing it a “massive, massive victory” over Manchester police. It…
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Obituary: Sir Geoffrey Bindman (1933-2025), an extraordinary lawyer and a friend of Searchlight
Everyone at Searchlight was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sir Geoffrey Bindman, who passed away on 4…
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Twice as many far-right referrals to Prevent as Islamist cases
Searchlight has argued before that the threat from far-right extremism in the UK now outstrips that coming from radical Islamists.…
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Artur Gold: the violinist of Treblinka
In the summer of 2013 I interviewed Samuel Willenberg, at the time the last surviving participant of the Jewish revolt…
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‘They’re eating the dogs!’ – Tenconi migrant rant sparks ridicule
UKIP leader Nick Tenconi has plumbed the depths of idiocy, even by his own cretinous standards, posting online a video…
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Murderous arson attack on Irish refugee centre
A potentially deadly blaze at at an Irish refugee centre on Friday evening was deliberately started by masked men who…
Holocaust
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Artur Gold: the violinist of Treblinka
In the summer of 2013 I interviewed Samuel Willenberg, at the time the last surviving participant of the Jewish revolt…
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An anniversary David Irving would rather forget
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over…
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Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative…
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Heritage Party leader bemoans ‘injustice’ for holocaust-denying nazi
Searchlight has been reporting for several months on the increasing radicalisation of right-wing parties. Not just the obviously racist and…
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College dumps Vice-Chair who marched with fascists
The Vice Chair of Exeter College of Further Education has been dumped from its board after being seen marching with fascists in Exeter last weekend. Patrick Tigwell, who was appointed to the Exeter College Board as a governor in 2022…
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Farage, Reform and the ‘Russia question’ that won’t go away
In the wake of Nathan Gill’s guilty verdict on multiple counts of bribery for taking payments in exchange for pro-Kremlin…
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Mike Cohen: The anti-fascist whose camera was his gun
Mike Cohen was one of Britain’s great Jewish anti-fascists, whose significant contribution to the movement came through his camera lens.…
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Danny Tommo’s wet weekend in Southampton
It was a wet weekend for the Southport riot-inciter Danny Tommo, one of Tommy Robinson’s closest mates. After doing his…
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Unholy alliance as Reform UK in Exeter cosy up to Britain First
Reform UK’s Exeter branch is under growing pressure to explain itself as some its most prominent local figures are associating…
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The ego and the echo chamber: ‘Taco’ Tenconi’s London flop
They came promising a show of strength. What unfolded instead was a pitiful spectacle. In Central London this afternoon, Nick…
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The lies and lies of the ‘Pink Lady’ child abuser
Gemma Mattinson, the vile ‘save our kids’ Pink Lady with convictions for child cruelty, is a liar. She’s posted a…
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BNP rump faces allegations of corruption and fraud
The British National Party (BNP), for years the pre-eminent force in British far-right politics but now an irrelevant rump, is…
Today's top ten most read articles
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The ego and the echo chamber: ‘Taco’ Tenconi’s London flop
They came promising a show of strength. What unfolded instead was a pitiful spectacle. In Central London this afternoon, Nick…
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The lies and lies of the ‘Pink Lady’ child abuser
Gemma Mattinson, the vile ‘save our kids’ Pink Lady with convictions for child cruelty, is a liar. She’s posted a…
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BNP rump faces allegations of corruption and fraud
The British National Party (BNP), for years the pre-eminent force in British far-right politics but now an irrelevant rump, is…
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Police authorise destruction of Britain First battle bus
As we predicted , Britain First leader Paul Golding has found it very difficult – in fact impossible – to…
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Obituary: Antonio Tejero (1932-2025), Civil Guard officer who led failed fascist coup in Spain
European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old-school fascist coup, Lt Col Antonio Tejero…
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Smirking Robinson wrecks chances of Israeli football fans watching Aston Villa game
When the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv visit Villa Park on 6 November for a Europa League fixture, there…
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Huge opposition leads to police ban on UKIP march
Try as he might to feign anger as he announces that his planned march in Whitechapel this coming weekend has…
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Austrian army colonel held as police raid far-right ‘weapons exercise’
Well-connected European nazis and extreme conspiracy theorists are under investigation after heavily-armed police raided a weapons training camp in Austria…